Amitav Ghosh and Jeet Thayil are among the 16 writers on the longlist for the $50,000 DSC Prize for South...
Month: October 2012
Hilary Mantel has won the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for her novel Bring up the Bodies, the sequel to Wolf...
Isn’t it time we called bullshit, once and for all, on the Nobel Prize? I’m not talking about the Peace...
Literary prizes, wrote Kingsley Amis, are “all right if you win them.” China’s political establishment takes a far less relaxed...
Nilanjana Roy’s The Wildings is as much a modern fable as it is a floor-level point of view of cosmopolis, largely through...
Does the bodyguard’s principal make conversation with the bodyguard, as they wait for the light to change, in the dull...
IT’S THE one-liners that delight! Sample these: A scooter in Madras is a man’s promise that he will not return...
Mo Yan, a novelist who brought to life the turbulence of the 20th century China in vivid and often graphic...
When journalist and literary critic Nilanjana S. Roy took in a stray kitten, little did she realise that the feline...
Why crime fiction as your first novel? I took a very pragmatic decision. For to get a first novel published...
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